{"id":1791197,"date":"2022-12-31T08:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T13:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1791197"},"modified":"2022-12-31T08:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T13:20:46","slug":"house-conservatives-demand-select-committee-to-investigate-fbi-doj-fauci-govts-handling-of-pandemic-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-conservatives-demand-select-committee-to-investigate-fbi-doj-fauci-govts-handling-of-pandemic-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"House Conservatives Demand Select Committee to Investigate FBI &#038; DOJ, Fauci &#038; Govt\u2019s Handling of Pandemic, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-conservatives-demand-select-committee-to-investigate-fbi-doj-fauci-govts-handling-of-pandemic-and-more%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1791197&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/90a8f3eb-6822-4c58-884e-27329e4b6116-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>As the date for the vote to elect the speaker of the House nears, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R.Calif.), an unpopular choice for the office is listening to the few House conservatives who will decide his fate.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to demanding choice committee assignments and prime office space, the dozen conservative members who hold McCarthy\u2019s fate in their hands have a new demand: they want McCarthy to create a select committee of the House that will be the granddaddy of all investigative committees and will investigate the many issues Republicans have been complaining about for years.<\/p>\n<p>Every incoming Republican House chairman has scheduled his or her own investigations, including Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan and his probe into political interference by the FBI and Justice Department, and Rep. James Comer\u2019s Oversight Committee looking into the border and fentanyl crises, pandemic relief fraud, botched Afghanistan withdrawal, the energy crisis, and Covid origins.<\/p>\n<p>Several other committees will be looking into Hunter Biden\u2019s nefarious business ventures. So you have to wonder just what else this select committee will be able to investigate that isn\u2019t already being examined with a congressional microscope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/12\/30\/mccarthy-biden-conservatives-investigations-00075847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, stated that<b> <\/b>The group has had \u201cgood conversations\u201d With incoming chairs, but that<b> <\/b>he and other conservatives are pitching the select committee as a way to coordinate the conference\u2019s investigative plans under one roof. They aren\u2019t naming names on who they believe should lead the panel, though at least one skeptical McCarthy ally has argued that, if it has to happen, it should be Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt needs to be targeted the right way,\u201d Roy said about the party\u2019s investigations. \u201cYou don\u2019t get many bites at the apple. You\u2019ve got to get it done right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After all, it\u2019s not like Congress has anything else to do. It\u2019s not like the border isn\u2019t secure, the economy isn\u2019t roaring along, and American cities aren\u2019t safe. Congress has plenty to do other things than primp for the cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Republicans in the House are going to get their pound of flesh \u2014 and then some.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-5\">But conservatives\u2019 vision for the new select committee could stretch far beyond just the FBI and Justice Department \u2014 two long-running targets of the party\u2019s ire \u2014 by stepping into other jurisdictional lanes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\" data-content-child-index=\"0-6\">Roy pointed to three other entities that could fall under its purview, in addition to the FBI and Justice Department: Fauci and the government\u2019s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the Department of Education and the IRS and money that will let the agency hire new staff. All of these areas are ones that other committees indicated they would investigate. Roy acknowledged there could be overlaps, but he also said, \u201cYou still want your best prosecutors prosecuting the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"0-6\">I think the idea of a select committee is an excellent one \u2014 as long as most of the other investigations are folded into it. The time-wasting, scattershot approach proposed by Republicans who all want their 15 minutes in the sun wastes resources and time and divides the public\u2019s attention from the important work that needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p data-content-child-index=\"0-6\">It was inevitable that the issue would become entwined with McCarthy\u2019s speakership fight. McCarthy could be a true leader by addressing the issue of investigation and channeling that energy to a positive direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the date for the vote to elect the speaker of the House nears, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R.Calif.), an unpopular choice for the office is listening to the few House conservatives who will decide his fate. 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